885 Quotes About Writing-advice

I’m sorry for writing you a four-page letter. I did not have time to write you a one-page letter.

Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.

Sometimes it helps to pick out one person-a real person you know, or an imagined person-and write to that one.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

We don't like writing. We like having written.

Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants—you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell

The most basic rule of editing is that if you can’t bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.

Writer's block, for me, is merely a way of saying "I'm too lazy to sit down and give it the proper time." I want to be a progressive writer, not a lazy one.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like all-embracing compassion.